CO129-205 - Public Offices - 1882 — Page 454

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a main maga.

for it's self defences

zine, laboratory, and Artillery, stores

have yet to be provided,

a guard room for

as well as

men in charge

of the battery, in time of peace.

The requirements necessary

for the completion of the battery

are laid down in the following

tracts

from paragraples 70,71,72

of Capt. Mc Callums report of

17th January, 1800 =

the

70.--The concrete escarp wall, as at present constructed, is of minimum section, and Chinese coolic labour at Singapore not being very good at any time, I would propose that a 2′ 6′′ facing should be given to it of Malacca stone, a cheap, tough conglomerate, which is taken out in handy blocks and becomes hard on exposure to the air. The present gorge parapet should be thrown forward into the hollow in front of the coun-- ter scarp and its place supplied by a loopholed wall. The ditches also should be generally improved. The escarp of the horn-work and its redan should be heightened and so constructed from re-entering angle to re-entering angle that a chemin des rondes may run all round, from which the hollows and slopes in front may be searched by musketry fire. The present gorge wall should be continued until it meets the cliff on the reverse of the " gun emplacements, and, in like manner, the loopholed wall should be carried round the cliff util it meets the flank parapet of the right 9" guu.

In south

71.-Between the 9" battery and the lower 7" battery, should be constructed a main magazine, protected behind the cliff in front, when the present spacious ammunition stores could be strengthened from the inside and converted into expense magazines, with separate supply passages as at present designed. AX